Hymns Quotes

A religious life is a struggle and not a hymn.

— Madame de Stael

We have not created any sort of democratic test for any nation.

— Anonymous

I want my life to be a hymn to the Creator.

— Robert Muller

We are a strong democratic country.

— Aleksander Kwasniewski

And so in that very shame I suddenly begin a hymn.

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

People love to hear the choir sing the hymns.

— Mack Wilberg

Chess problems are the hymn-tunes of mathematics.

— G. H. Hardy

The rustling of the leaves is like a low hymn to nature.

— James Ellis

Why has our poetry eschewed The rapture and response of food? What hymns are sung, what praises said For home-made miracles of…

— Louis Untermeyer

I was anticipating that some readers might misread [the book] ROOM itself as a hymn to homeschooling.

— Emma Donoghue

The Catholic theatrics are pretty high quality, but the Protestants have better hymns.

— Greta Gerwig

Apparently there are some Democratic leaders in the Senate that are running for office who now believe in tax cuts.

— Jeb Bush

Evidently the arts, all the visual arts, are becoming more democratic in the worst sense of the word.

— Eugenio Montale

At school, I enjoyed playing the bassoon. I was in the orchestra and played the melody when the other boys sang hymns…

— James Dyson

The singing of hymns and the rendition of selections from the great sacred oratorios by ward choirs all enhance the spirit of…

— Gordon B. Hinckley

We will now sing forth, hymn 405, 'Oh God, what on earth is my hairdo all about?

— Eddie Izzard

To imagine that God wants prayers and hymns of praise is to make him out to a sort of oriental potentate; while…

— Barbara Smoker

Men build our churches but do not enter them, print our Bibles but do not read them, talk about God but do…

— Leonard Ravenhill

The great folk hymns are a perfect marriage of text and tune. There are those that have nice messages and some with…

— Mack Wilberg

Religion stalks across the face of human history, knee-deep in the blood of innocents, clasping its red hands in hymns of praise…

— Philip Appleman

I wanted to have more songs with religious backgrounds. The Christmas record has strong, traditional hymns, but it also has a song…

— Scotty McCreery

Seated upon the convex mound Of one vast kidney, Jonah prays And sings his canticles and hymns, Making the hollow vault resound…

— Aldous Huxley

The singing of our sacred hymns, written by the servants of God, has a powerful effect in converting people to the principles…

— Heber J. Grant

In the immense cathedral which is the universe of God, each person, whether scholar or manual laborer, is called to act as…

— Paul Evdokimov

If we can choose where to cry, at home or with a few people who will be fully understanding, perhaps we will…

— Martha Whitmore Hickman

A few doors away was the Baptist Church, and as I walked towards it I began to think that people didn't want…

— Can Themba

We can set our deeds to the music of a grateful heart, and seek to round our lives into a hymn —…

— William Mackergo Taylor

He who was Shri Rama, whose stream of love flowed with resistless might even to the Chandala (the outcaste); Oh, who ever…

— Swami Vivekananda

Saints born together to fight against their holy fables The streets are where we pray Hymns for the lonely, wretched and forgotten…

— Nikislonelyfornow

My grandfather once ventured upon publishing a volume of hymns. I never heard anyone speak in their favour or argue that they…

— Charles Spurgeon

Now, I'm as appreciative as the next obsessive-compulsive recovering-academic of the vast riches of material becoming available online, thanks to all those…

— Laurie R. King

Kitsch is the daily art of our time, as the vase or the hymn was for earlier generations. For the sensibility it…

— Harold Rosenberg

“Away from the goal Far away I stand from my home. A home unknown Where my heart and spirit must go Thy…

— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

In our whole life melody the music is broken off here and there by rests, and we foolishly think we have come…

— John Ruskin

“Many secular observers and spiritual practitioners alike mistake mystical chanting as a kind of anthropological curiosity or interesting musical diversion from secular…

— Zeena Schreck

I always wanted to sing, I always loved to sing. As a child I was singing all the time, and my parents…

— Mari Boine

After the tragedy of 9/11 we were on our way to becoming a fledgling Matriotic society until our leaders jumped on the…

— Cindy Sheehan

There are two kinds of music. One comes from the strings of a guitar, the other from the strings of the heart.…

— Michael Jackson

When children ask you questions about gray hairs, and wrinkles in the face, and sighs that have no words, and smiles too…

— Joseph Parker

Jesus! it is the name which moves the harps of heaven to melody. Jesus! the life of all our joys. If there…

— Anonymous